Allen & Co Store
CoinA photo of an old coin that was used by Allen
& Co. of Laygate, South Shields. The coin has a face value
of 2 shillings and was used in some cases when you asked for a
refund on goods you had bought you did not get your money back
in many cases you were giving a token to the value of your goods
that then had to be spent in the store. In its heyday Allens
store was a huge department store that was on the lines of the
old Binns store in Shields, but over the years it went downhill
and became one of those cheap shop style stores and that
eventually led to it closing down and in the last few years it
was totally demolished